Bush should pardon the 'Border Two'

[Regis Philbin]

While I agree with the Libby commutation (although I feel it should have been a full pardon), I believe Bush should pardon the 2 Border Patrol officers who were jailed for a shooting that took place while they were doing their duty along the border. This is injustice at it's worst and is a perfect case for Presidential intervention is the misuse of power.

[pinky]

Why do you believe Libby should have been pardoned?

[Richard Tafoya]

And here's evidence presented by the US Attorney's Office against the slimeballs that Regis refers to.

http://www.kvia.com/global/story.asp?s=5356653&ClientType=Printable

The defendants were prosecuted because they had fired their weapons at a man who had attempted to surrender by holding his open hands in the air, at which time Agent Compean attempted to hit the man with the butt of Compean's shotgun, causing the man to run in fear of what the agents would do to him next.

Although both agents saw that the man was not armed, the agents fired at least 15 rounds at him while he was running away from them, hitting him once.

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During his testimony, [prosecuted agent] Compean acknowledged that at that time [driver] Aldrete-Davila held his hands up, as if to surrender, with his palms open, and no weapon was in either hand, or evident on his person.

Another agent, who had arrived by this time and observed the scene, heard someone yell "hit him." Aldrete-Davila, who was at one time a legal resident alien of the United States and speaks some English, also heard someone yell "hit him, hit him," and specifically heard Compean yell: "Parate, parate, Mexicano de mierda." ("Stop, stop you Mexican sh*t.")

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The evidence was un-controverted that, at the time the victim was shot, neither agent knew whether the driver was illegally in the United States or whether a crime had been committed. The only information they had was that the driver had failed to pull over to be identified.

According to the testimony of seven other Border Patrol agents who arrived at the scene of the incident after the shooting, neither Compean nor Ramos mentioned that the driver who absconded had a gun, or that any agent's life was in danger.

[LesterX]

I believe Bush should pardon the 2 Border Patrol officers who were jailed for a shooting that took place while they were doing their duty along the border.

So it's the duty of border patrol agents to shoot unarmed men?

[Richard Tafoya]

Well, they shot a Mexican, so there are some on the extreme right who think they should get a medal.